Toei Ōedo Line

One of ticket gates of Shinjuku Station, E-27

The Toei Ōedo Line (都営地下鉄大江戸線, Toei Chikatetsu Ōedo-sen) is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (not the Tokyo Metro). Also known as Line 12, it commenced operations on December 12, 2000, read "12/12/12" in the Japanese calendar as the year 2000 was Heisei 12.

History

Currently the newest line in the capital, the Ōedo Line is Tokyo's first linear motor metro line, which allows it use smaller cars and smaller tunnels. These putative cost savings were, however, offset by the need to build the line very deep (as low as 48 meters below ground at points) through central Tokyo, including three underground crossings of the Sumida River. Estimates of the cost of construction range from the official ¥988.6 billion to over ¥1,400 billion yen, making it the most expensive subway line ever built. Ridership figures have been far below the expected 820,000 passengers daily, meaning that the line is unlikely to recoup its costs in 35 years as expected.

Stations

The Ōedo Line runs in a loop around central Tokyo before branching out towards Nerima in the western suburbs, meaning the line is shaped like a figure of 6 lying on its side. It is not a true loop line: trains from the western Hikarigaoka terminus run anticlockwise around the loop and terminate at the intermediate Tochō-mae Station facing towards Hikarigaoka, and vice-versa.

The terminals and major stations include Hikarigaoka, Roppongi, Daimon, Ryogoku, Iidabashi, and Tocho-mae. Stations on the Toei Ōedo Line carry the letter E followed by a number.

Stations

Station number	Station name	Connecting lines
E-28	Tocho-mae Station
E-01	Shinjuku Nishiguchi Station	Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (Shinjuku Station), Chuo Main Line, Yamanote Line, Saikyo Line, Shonan-Shinjuku Line (Shinjuku Station), Seibu Shinjuku Line (Seibu Shinjuku Station)
E-02	Higashi Shinjuku Station
E-03	Wakamatsu Kawada Station
E-04	Ushigome Yanagicho Station
E-05	Ushigome Kagurazaka Station
E-06	Iidabashi Station	Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line, Tokyo Metro Namboku Line, JR East Chuo Main Line
E-07	Kasuga Station	Toei Mita Line, Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (Korakuen Station), Tokyo Metro Namboku Line (Korakuen Station)
E-08	Hongo Sanchome Station	Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
E-09	Ueno Okachimachi Station	Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (Ueno Hirokoji Station), Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line (Naka-okachimachi Station), Yamanote Line, Keihin Tohoku Line (Okachimachi Station)
E-10	Shin-okachimachi Station
E-11	Kuramae Station	Toei Asakusa Line
E-12	Ryogoku Station	Sobu Main Line
E-13	Morishita Station	Toei Shinjuku Line
E-14	Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station	Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line
E-15	Monzen Nakacho Station	Tokyo Metro Tozai Line
E-16	Tsukishima Station	Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line
E-17	Kachidoki Station
E-18	Tsukiji Shijo Station
E-19	Shiodome Station	Yurikamome
E-20	Daimon Station	Toei Asakusa Line, Yamanote Line, Keihin Tohoku Line (Hamamatsucho Station), Tokyo Monorail Haneda Line (Hamamatsucho Station)
E-21	Akabanebashi Station
E-22	Azabu Juban Station	Tokyo Metro Namboku Line
E-23	Roppongi Station	Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line
E-24	Aoyama Itchome Station	Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Hanzomon Line
E-25	Kokuritsu Kyogijo Station
E-26	Yoyogi Station	Chuo Main Line, Yamanote Line
E-27	Shinjuku Station	Toei Shinjuku Line, Chuo Main Line, Yamanote Line, Saikyo Line, Shonan Shinjuku Line, Odakyu Odawara Line, Keio Line, Keio New Line
E-28	Tocho-mae Station
E-29	Nishi Shinjuku Gochome Station
E-30	Nakano Sakaue Station	Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
E-31	Higashi Nakano Station	Chuo Main Line
E-32	Nakai Station	Seibu Shinjuku Line
E-33	Ochiai Minami Nagasaki Station
E-34	Shin-ekoda Station
E-35	Nerima Station	Seibu Ikebukuro Line, Seibu Yurakucho Line, Seibu Toshima Line
E-36	Toshimaen Station	Seibu Toshima Line
E-37	Nerima Kasugacho Station
E-38	Hikarigaoka Station